Re: resource tweaks for windows 7 daw

"Laurence Payne" <lp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As he only asked about "junk", I forgot to mention the Processor
Scheduling Programs/Background Services switch is still there. Though
as anyone running Windows 7 doubtless has a multi-core CPU, the
question arises whether it still does anything useful.

I repeat my advice - leave things alone until/unless problems occur.
You may well be able to run a perfectly efficient DAW without pulling
the plug on your network/internet, without disabling any processes and
even with a couple of other applications running under your audio
program! Certainly the days when we had to specify a stripped-down
system to get a DAW to run at all are lone in the past.


I always start by disabling services that aren't needed. Windows comes with
an army of services for use in an enterprise environment that the home user
doesn't need. Turning them saves memory & CPU, reduces the number of
potential exploits available to hackers. Things like Remote Registry
management seems like it's begging to be hacked.

What I do is to aggressively disable any suspect services - I disable them
so I can easily see which ones I've changed - and only turn them back on if
I find a need for them.

Sean



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